Tropical Vacation Keno

The beauty of online casino games is that they possess the power to instantly transport you to a different time and place. One moment you’re staring at a loading screen on your laptop; the next you’re lazing on a tropical beach or climbing the pyramids or roaming a Chinese water garden. Admittedly, the extent to which this effect is implemented can vary greatly. If you’re playing a 3D slot from the likes of NetEnt, the theme can be quite convincing. If you’re playing something like Tropical Vacation Keno on the other hand you’ll need to use your imagination.

The graphics for this game aren’t the most detailed or convincing, but they do their job for the purposes of providing a recognisable setting. The load screen depicts blue skies, white clouds, sun loungers, cocktails and warm golden sands. When you hit the large Play Now button you’re taken through to the game board, and despite the fact that a standard 10x8 board is obliged to fill the majority of the screen, there’s space at the sides for more of those tropical vibes including palm trees and parasols.

Holiday Fun in the Sun

Tropical Vacation Keno loads with a little beat of audio, and then it falls silent again. It will remain that way until you start clicking on the board to select your numbers. The sound effects are tinny and cheap, but then so are the graphics. They deserve each other, and besides, how detailed do you need your keno to be? Tropical Vacation Keno is a fully mobile-compatible game, so it will work smoothly on Android and iPhone as well as on desktop devices. It even loads in Chrome thanks to its HTML5 compatibility.

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Turtle-y Brilliant Bonus Symbols

As your numbers are drawn you’ll notice that certain squares wind up with flapping turtles on them. These are the bonus symbols which elevate the game above being your average keno game and which give you the opportunity to trigger the Tiki Bar Bonus when you land three or four of them. In every other respect, Tropical Vacation Keno performs just like you’d expect a keno game to. Grand Vision Gaming have produced loads of keno games, all of which have the same controls and bet settings but a different theme.

Take a Break

Depending on how you look at it, playing a game like Tropical Vacation Keno can be either cheering or depressing. If it serves only to remind you of how long it’s been since you’ve had a holiday, this game is destined to be depressing. However if it fleetingly distracts you from the drudgery of everyday life and the crapness of the weather where you live, Tropical Vacation Keno will have done its job. If you really want to experience winning, you should try playing this game on your mobile on holiday, while kicking back on a sun lounger and sipping a cocktail.

In terms of the playing controls you have available, you can set the game speed – choose from four settings – and you can set your bet. There’s a Max Bet button provided for convenience. There’s also a quick pick button which will choose numbers on your behalf, saving a little time. If you need to consult the paytable in this game, you’ll find it as hard to read as all the other paytables on this developer’s other games. As it explains, you can mark up to 10 numbers on the grid before the draw is made at random, amounting to a total of 20 numbers. When you successfully trigger the Tiki Bar Bonus, you’ll be required to select certain objects. These objects, which include a bottle of spirits and a pair of flip-flops, will then be placed on the grid and for each one you correctly match with, you’ll be assigned a multiplier. Once all the objects have been hit, a Bar Closed sign will appear on the grid.

Tropical Vacation Keno in Summary

If you’re going to play a game of keno, might as well make it one with a bit of character to it. Tropical Vacation Keno might not be a classic, but it’s still an entertaining way to play. This is a game where there’s all sorts going on, both in the main game and in the bonus game. The bonus game is probably the best bit, livening things up nicely and paving the way for some sweet multiplier wins. If you elect only to play for fun you’ll soon tire of it, but if you play for real money, Tropical Vacation Keno has the potential to keep you gripped for quite some time.